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Gallery Notes Volume 28 Number 4

Gallery Notes Volume 28 Number 4 page 1

MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Vol. 28, No. 4 - March-April, 1963
NEW ACCESSIONS OF FAR EASTERN ART
Spring with a Japanese slant will be in Rochester well ahead
of cherry blossom time along the Potomac in the unfolding at
the Gallery this month of seven important examples of Japanese pictorial art. Acquired through the Marion Stratton Gould
Fund and selected in Japan by Professor Diran K. Dohanian of
the Fine Arts and Non-Western Civilizations Department of the
University of Rochester, the group spans some five centuries
of Japanese painting and illustrates three significant eras
in its development.
The oldest and most important of the paintings are a trio
of 11th Century sutra scrolls—three volumes of the Buddhist
Juichimenkan Jizai Bosatsu Kyo—with delicate calligraphy and
drawings in silver and gold on polished dark blue paper. Like
most of these early Fujiwara Period scrolls, there is little
action or narration depicted. The sutra text in dramatic gold
and silver characters fills almost all of the entire eleven-
foot length of each scroll—except for the beautifully drawn
panel with Buddhist divinities in a stylized Paradise setting
that begins each volume.
The important, late 16th Century Kano School of the Momoyama
Period with its rich decorative sense and broad impressionistic
painting is represented in a delightful pair of kakemonos of
"Monkeys" painted in sumi on paper. Attributed to Kano Soshu—
a younger brother of Kano Eitoku who established the school's
style and gave it national importance—the Gallery's paintings
abound with small, solemn-faced, but lively monkeys swinging
out against a luminous, limitless sky and brushed in with
Left:
"Monkeys": Pair of Kakemonos
Attributed to Kano Soshu
Momoyama Period
Late 16th Century
Right:
Detail: Buddhist Divinities
From a Set of Three Sutras
Fujiwara Period - 11th Century
The Marion Stratton Gould Fund
GALLERY OPEN WEEKDAYS 10 A. M. TO 5 P. M. — SUNDAYS 2 TO 5:30 P. M. ADMISSION FREE

MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Vol. 28, No. 4 - March-April, 1963
NEW ACCESSIONS OF FAR EASTERN ART
Spring with a Japanese slant will be in Rochester well ahead
of cherry blossom time along the Potomac in the unfolding at
the Gallery this month of seven important examples of Japanese pictorial art. Acquired through the Marion Stratton Gould
Fund and selected in Japan by Professor Diran K. Dohanian of
the Fine Arts and Non-Western Civilizations Department of the
University of Rochester, the group spans some five centuries
of Japanese painting and illustrates three significant eras
in its development.
The oldest and most important of the paintings are a trio
of 11th Century sutra scrolls—three volumes of the Buddhist
Juichimenkan Jizai Bosatsu Kyo—with delicate calligraphy and
drawings in silver and gold on polished dark blue paper. Like
most of these early Fujiwara Period scrolls, there is little
action or narration depicted. The sutra text in dramatic gold
and silver characters fills almost all of the entire eleven-
foot length of each scroll—except for the beautifully drawn
panel with Buddhist divinities in a stylized Paradise setting
that begins each volume.
The important, late 16th Century Kano School of the Momoyama
Period with its rich decorative sense and broad impressionistic
painting is represented in a delightful pair of kakemonos of
"Monkeys" painted in sumi on paper. Attributed to Kano Soshu—
a younger brother of Kano Eitoku who established the school's
style and gave it national importance—the Gallery's paintings
abound with small, solemn-faced, but lively monkeys swinging
out against a luminous, limitless sky and brushed in with
Left:
"Monkeys": Pair of Kakemonos
Attributed to Kano Soshu
Momoyama Period
Late 16th Century
Right:
Detail: Buddhist Divinities
From a Set of Three Sutras
Fujiwara Period - 11th Century
The Marion Stratton Gould Fund
GALLERY OPEN WEEKDAYS 10 A. M. TO 5 P. M. — SUNDAYS 2 TO 5:30 P. M. ADMISSION FREE